MEAD: BASICALLY ANGLO-SAXON BEER

Any guesses who was interested in this historic drink?

Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

TODAY AT THE EXETER AGORA

A wonderful,  truly historic city.   My 18th visit to this gem this year.  

Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

A QUESTION FOR YOU...

 You're probably wondering what token of seasonal thanks to give  your housemaid or Moroccan house-boy, most likely to sugar the bitter pill of retrenchment in your household in the New Year.  Naturally, brandy for your cutter but nothing more than a small,  perfunctory seasonal greetings card for his presser.  Yet stranger,  take some time to ponder this...   Can we have too much choice in life?   Is choice always and without exception good for one? 

BTW someone in the photograph looks familiar, perhaps showing a penchant for pastries after a tour of duty in the trenches...   

Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

HISTORY ALL AROUND US: QUARRY BANK MILL, STYAL, CHESHIRE

Quarry Bank Mill  is run by the National Trust and an amazing place to visit, especially if you're interested in social and economic history.  There is working machinery and just up the lane the apprentice house which housed orphans who worked in the cotton mill.  Give yourselves plenty of time in order to spend an unhurried day exploring the mill, the apprentice house, Styal village and its churches.

Here is a link to the property:

http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/quarry-bank-mill/


Steve




Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

ANGLO-SAXONS!

An interesting period in British and European history.  Chilly in the trenches this time of year though!  Thank you Historic Media.

Lydia


Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

THE CUCKOO CLOCK SPEECH

"You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

Lydia





Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

THE RIESENRAD

This is a one of my favourite scenes from one of my favourite films, "The Third Man".  Set in Vienna naturally.  Dots and cuckoo clocks indeed!

Lydia




Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

VIENNA: MY KINDA TOWN...

 Ah memories...  Shh, don't tell a soul, but Mr Evans used to sport a 'tash and it was not for Movember!  I have seen photographs of said 'tash and said Mr Evans, in extreme close proximity to one another.  He did look like Mr Midge Ure or perhaps Mr Midge Ure looked like Mr Evans.  Vienna is certainly a wonderful city to visit, especially if you enjoy European history.  Wrap up warmly as it can get chilly even in March and especially in October.  I wasn't born when  this was released but I do like it because it brings back many happy memories, many of which are recent.  What music do you like or associate with a memory?

Lydia




Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

FOR LAUREN AND DAVID: HEINO SINGS A BERLIN MEDLEY

Have a great time - hope you learn all these songs before you leave.  Happy Birthday for next week Lauren and don't forget my musical ice rink!  

Steve  



Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

PRESENTLY LISTENING TO

THE NORMAN CONQUEST: THE BATTLE OF HASTINGS AND THE FALL OF ANGLO-SAXON ENGLAND


Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

PRACTISING MY PARTY PIECE FOR SAM AND OLLY'S WEDDING

Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

REMEMBRANCE OF TIMES PAST AND HOPING FOR A BETTER FUTURE

BURY 2013. HERE'S TO A BETTER 2014!

THIS EVENING AT THE AGORA

MY LOVELY CLASSROOM AT MMU DIDSBURY TODAY - HAPPY DAYS AND HAPPENED DAYS!

Given a Makeover but is it ethically right?

Historical photographs get a 'colorized' makeover - in pictures

http://gu.com/p/3kfc9

POWERPOINT ADVICE

You Suck At PowerPoint! from Jesse Desjardins - @jessedee

Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

ASSIGNMENT 2: SUFFRAGISTS AND SUFFRAGETTES VIDEO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJBdPFfnZHU&feature=player_embedded


Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here.

ASSIGNMENT 2 VIDEO ON THE SUFFRAGETTES

Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

ASSIGNMENT TWO: IMAGES FOR YOUR PRESENTATIONS

Type in "Suffragette" to the search box to obtain access to 123 images.

http://www.maryevans.com/search.php


Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

ASSIGNMENT 2

Link to video resources from the BBC.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/britain1906to1918/g3/gallery3.htm




Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

The arguments for and against votes for women

More resources and sources for you to use from the National Archives.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/britain1906to1918/g3/gallery3.htm



Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

ASSIGNMENT 2

Link to the National Archives where there are a wealth of resources for you to use in your studies.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/britain1906to1918/g4/cs2/g4cs2.htm


Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

ASSIGNMENT 2 : THE SUFFRAGISTS AND THE SUFFRAGETTES

Link to a quiz on Victorian women's rights from the BBC History website.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/launch_gms_womens_rights.shtml




Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

SOMETHING SIMILAR HAPPENED TO ME LAST NIGHT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GcIIOkIzIk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

NORFOLK

Good evening to the reader of my blog.   I noticed we have not looked at any poems for a while.   A poem much in my mind lately is Norfolk by John Betjeman.   It conjures up the days of innocence spent as a young boy with his father wandering the Norfolk lanes.   A halcyonic time before all the problems,  fears and doubts of adulthood arrive.  Haven't we all at some time wished for a return to a time of innocence and happiness -  a time when pleasure came from simple pastimes, even  if only for one hour?

How did the Devil come? When first attack?
    These Norfolk lanes recall lost innocence,
The years fall off and find me walking back
    Dragging a stick along the wooden fence
Down this same path, where, forty years ago,
My father strolled behind me, calm and slow.

I used to fill my hands with sorrel seeds
    And shower him with them from the tops of stiles,
I used to butt my head into his tweeds
    To make him hurry down those languorous miles
Of ash and alder-shaded lanes, till here
Our moorings and the masthead would appear.

There after supper lit by lantern light
    Warm in the cabin I could lie secure
And hear against the polished sides at night
    The lap lap lapping of the weedy Bure,
A whispering and watery Norfolk sound
Telling of all the moonlit reeds around.

How did the Devil come? When first attack?
    The church is just the same, though now I know
Fowler of Louth restored it. Time, bring back
    The rapturous ignorance of long ago,
The peace, before the dreadful daylight starts,
Of unkept promises and broken hearts.



Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

FREE GRAMMAR SCHOOLS

I agree with the article but should I? I went to a boys' grammar school and my experience on the whole is a positive one. What do you think?

Steve


http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/end-stagnation-and-create-aspiration-with-free-grammar-schools-8936544.html

EMMELINE PANKHURT

Link to an article on Emmeline Pankurst in History Today by Paula Bartley.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Steve


Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

EMMELINE PANKHURST SPEECH - GREAT SPEECHES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Freedom or death

This speech was delivered in Hartford, Connecticut on November 13 1913

http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2007/apr/27/greatspeeches



Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

EMILY DAVISON THE GOOD TERRORIST

An interesting article by Martin Pugh in June's History Today magazine.  Follow the link.

Steve

Emily Wilding Davison: The Good Terrorist






Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

ANOTHER VICTIM OF DERBY DAY

Anmer the King's horse had to be put down as a result of the injuries sustained by Emily Davison's intervention.  This was one more factor in the growing public hostility towards the Suffragettes, who viewed Emily Davison's actions as reckless and unpatriotic in targetting the King's horse.





Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

SUFFRAGETTE

Plenty of source materials you can use in your presentations but use sparingly to support some of the poinst you will be making.

Steve







Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

TODAY'S LESSON

Interesting discussion following the footage of the Derby and Miss Davison.  Her death is recorded in an almost matter-of-fact dispassionate way.  I thought you came up with some very good reasons why this might be so.  Imagine in the age of "rolling news" how it would be reported today: endless slo-mo repeats and witnesses being interviewed, counselling being arranged, experts being wheeled into the studio to discuss the issue of women's suffrage  and  crowd safety; Facebook community sites and blogs being set up, people posting on newspaper sites etc.

As an aside, I thought the policeman drinking a glass of stout for breakfast particularly professional.

Steve


Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

SUFFRAGETTE EMILY DAVISON AND THE KING'S HORSE

Footage of the event.  Remember: she  did not "throw herself under the King's horse" in some act of martyrdom.  She attempted to attach a "Votes for Women" rosette or scarf or a sash (accounts differ) to the beast.  She had made plans to visit France some days after the event.  





Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

LLOYD GEORGE'S HOUSE BOMBED! BUT WHO DID IT?

The Suffragettes of course!





Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

THE 1908 PAGEANT - EMBANKMENT TO THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL 1908

Interesting article from the Observer of the time.  Here's the link.

Steve





http://www.theguardian.com/news/2012/jun/17/archive-1908-suffragette-march






Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

THE KENNEDY CONNECTIONS

When we talk about a well connected family, the Kennedy family must be an archetype. From the excellent All About History magazine. Click on the image to enlarge.

Steve

THE ASSASSINATION OF ARCHDUKE FRANZ FERDINAND

From the excellent All About History magazine. Some interesting facts if you enlarge the picture.


Steve

PRE-RAPHAELITE ART

Following on from our session on Wednesday, another Pre-Raphaelite painting but from the female artist Evelyn De Morgan which makes a change from the Pre-Raphaelite "Brotherhood" PRB with its exclusive membership of males.  An interesting female perspective on the female form of representation in Victorian Britain and an interesting subject choice of Cassandra the Trojan Princess who was granted the gift of prophecy but also the curse that nobody would believe her prophecies.  The Gods certainly did have a wicked sense of humour.  Cassandra eventually goes mad in the constraints of her curse and the constraints of a city laid siege for over a decade by the Greeks.  Perhaps a comment on a repressive Victorian society?

There is a wonderful collection of Pre-Raphaelite art at the Manchester Art Gallery in Manchester.  Here is a link but I would strongly recommend a visit in order to appreciate the splendour of these artifacts.

http://www.manchestergalleries.org/whats-on/permanent-galleries/historic-galleries/pre-raphaelite/


Steve


Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

THE SUFFRAGISTS AND THE SUFFRAGETTES

Today's PowerPoint.

Steve

Suffra from quintus

Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

CONGRATULATIONS!

Well done everyone for completing all your work on time.  I'm looking forward to reading your finalised essays and looking at your excellent displays!

Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

JOHN WILLIAM EVANS

Pictured in his Royal Navy uniform in 1943, my father John William Evans, born 5th November 1925, died 12th April 2008.  He fought with valour throughout the Second World War and like most men of his generation, would hardly speak of his experiences despite being decorated for gallantry in action.  Not only a father but a best-friend.Very much missed, remembering you on your birthday and for nurturing and encouraging my love for history.  


Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

A TYPICAL EVENING IN MY HOUSEHOLD

"Dearest children, when Mama wakes from her gin stupor, I would be most grateful if you would inform her that Papa has gone to his club and may be some time."


Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

ASSIGNMENT DEADLINE IS WEDNESDAY, 6TH NOVEMBER

Remember, remember, the 6th of November...

Just a reminder to prevent any uncertainty.

Steve


Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+

HISTORICALLY HARDCORE

I've been informed that Mr 50 Cent is some rapper chap.

THIS MADE ME SMILE

http://bw.org/end/

HISTORIC JUDGE THE GRUDGE

Please feel free to comment and/or add more information here. Google+